This constructive bowling session, designed to work indoors or out, keeps your players occupied and working hard in a safe and competitive environment - giving them the perfect opportunity to practice and improve their bowling line and length, whatever the weather!
Practice really does make perfect (well, nearly perfect), so give your bowlers plenty of opportunities to work on their bowling with this bowling session and help them to understand that length is key!
The corridor of uncertainty
Cricket commentator Geoff Boycott describes the "the corridor of uncertainty" as being the ideal area for to bowl at a batter. This imaginary area, just outside the off-stump, is the perfect area for your bowlers to aim for to keep batters guessing!
August is when seasons are decided, and most club games are lost chasing rather than setting. Give your batters a framework for the chase and you win the close ones.
Green July pitches and a shiny Dukes mean the ball is talking. Here is how to coach your batters to survive the moving ball, trust their defence, and cash in once the shine has gone.
A bowling change can dismantle a partnership, halt a run surge, or hand the match back to the batting side. This article explores how modern captains use match phases, matchup data, and rhythm signals to time their changes, with a practical framework coaches can use to develop tactical thinking in young captains at club and age-group level.